On February 12th Mayor Andy Berke of Chattanooga signed an agreement with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

The agreement called “ 2014 Memorandum of Understanding” stipulates that SEIU members employed by the city will be given 600 hours of “release time”, paid for by the Chattanooga taxpayer. Release time allows unionized workers to travel on union business and attend union training while on taxpayer dime.

It looks like the fight isn’t over for the United Auto Workers (UAW) union and its attempts to unionize the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The UAW narrowly lost its bid to unionize the Volkswagen plant back in February in a secret ballot election by a vote of 712 to 626. Under U.S. labor law the union has to wait one full year before they are allowed to hold another secret ballot election at the plant.

Michigan is now a right to work state. On Monday a UAW veteran of 16 years voiced his reasons for opting out of union dues. Below is the entire post Todd Lemire wrote on his blog on Monday. To see Todd's website click here.

Volkswagen employees recieved a distrubing letter from Region 8 Director Gary Casteel on April 21st. To read the original letter please reference www.no2uaw.com. Below is the response formulated by some of the workers to Casteel.

Media Matters For America (MMFA), a liberal non-profit “watchdog” group that supports organized labor efforts, has actually refused to let their own employees associate with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 500.

Unifor, the Canadian union equivalent to the United Auto Workers (UAW) in the states, has run into a little problem in their attempts to unionize to Toyota plants in Canada. Two Toyota plants located in Cambridge and Woodstock Ontario are the target by Unifor to unionize.

The union has had to temporarily delay the voting process in Ontario after it misjudged the company’s workforce.

ATR’s Center for Worker Freedom was happy to learn that the United Auto Workers has finally dropped its frivolous challenges to the results of February's election at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, which the union lost 712-626.

The Chattanooga Times Free Press quoted CWF Executive Director Matt Patterson in regards to the Subpoenas issued by the NLRB on Wednesday. He was quoted saying “Our grounds are is that this is a fishing expedition and we don’t feel compelled to comply.” Tucker Nelson and Grover Norquist, both of Americans for Tax Reform, are also fighting the Subpoenas.

Patterson of the CWF explains the threat to the Democratic process in regards to the Chattanooga Volskwagen plant. The union is petitioning the NLRB to overturn the democratic elections. Read more here.

As if the United Auto Workers (UAW) hasn’t made enough headlines this week, they are making them again, this time in Kentucky.

This particular union, UAW Local 2164, located in Bowling Green, Kentucky represents about 800 employees for General Motors (GM). This GM plant assembles the coveted sports car, the Corvette. This is the only plant in the world that assembles the Corvette.

Whining about interference with union organization seems to be the trend with the United Auto Workers (UAW). When outcomes don’t go in your favor, blame the other party, claim “interference.”

That is exactly what the UAW is doing in Alabama. April 7th, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) heard charges from the union that“…..Mercedes-Benz interfered with the United Auto Workers' effort to organize a union at the automaker's Tuscaloosa County factory," reports al.com.

Company looking to hand over its Chattanooga plant to the UAW, in spite of worker rejection of the union

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Volkswagen management is considering a course of action that would hand over its Chattanooga assembly plant to the United Auto Workers (UAW) in spite of that union's failure to win a February secret ballot election, the Center for Worker Freedom (CWF) has learned.

It is no secret that the United Auto Workers union failed in its attempt to unionize the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee just a few short weeks ago.

The union has not given up on Chattanooga, but the Nissan plant in Mississippi is also in its sight.

Canton, Mississippi is the location of a 5,000 employee Nissan plant. As the union seems to be on damage control after its embarrassing performance in Tennessee, they are looking for new tactics to organize in Mississippi.